Assistant Conference & Events Manager

About us

At InterContinental London Park Lane, we are currently looking for an Assistant Conference & Events Manager to support our Events Team!

Welcome to No1 Park Lane

Situated at one of the capital’s most prestigious addresses- where Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II once used to reside, InterContinental London Park Lane reinvents traditional luxury to present modern and flexible sophistication in the heart of Mayfair. Inspired by its location overlooking the Royal Parks, the hotel delivers elegant natural interiors and award-wining seasonal cuisine.

Our Assistant Conferences & Events Managers:

• Help to develop the overall quality and profitability of the Conference and Events Department, along with service standards and staff motivation.
• Help the lead the team to be committed to the happiness of our internal and external guests, understanding and promoting its utmost importance
• Plan and prepare Rotas, H&S, financial reviews and product development on a weekly basis
• Spend time with the M+E team through one-to-one coffee chats and team meetings

This role will be reporting to the Conference & Events Manager, to ensure high quality guest service while being part of a fun and hardworking team. InterContinental London Park Lane hosts a variety of events throughout the calendar year including weddings, private dinners, charity galas and corporate meetings across our venues.

What you’ll need to succeed in this role:

Ideally, you will have management experience in Food and Beverage and will be able to demonstrate creativity, good planning and organisation skills as well as:

• Be familiar with the standards within 4/5* luxury hotels
• Demonstrate excellent knowledge of all departments as well as the hospitality sector in general.
• Be able to evidence previous experience in creating balanced working environment
• Show initiative and confidence as a leader

What we offer

We are committed to offer and provide our Assistant Conference & Events Manager with a competitive salary and a large range of benefits:

• £33,000 salary plus paid overtime and great IHG perks!
• 31days holiday each year, including bank holidays, this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (Pro Rated) 

At InterContinental London Park Lane, we strive to make international travel more alluring by offering a ‘Slice of the InterContinental Life’:

• We maintain service of the highest standards, intertwined with local cultural wisdom and international know-how

As such, we take our colleagues on a personal and professional development journey to ensure they have the confidence to deliver the best service. We offer a range of self-development resources including personal access to the Headspace app, Mental Health First Aider training sessions all the way to financial wellbeing support. We also offer professional and career development with our IHG Leadership programmes and our partnership with Harvard Mentor.

• We’re charismatic, sophisticated and cosmopolitan…

We deliver a luxury environment to our colleagues by offering wellbeing activities on a monthly basis such as back massages, reflexology and foot doctor sessions. We organise monthly social events and take pride in fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace culture where everyone can thrive and have a place to belong.

• Did you know? We’re the largest luxury hotel brand!

We offer a large range of benefits to support the financial wellbeing of our colleagues; from discounts on retail and various activities over 15,000 stores; our recognition scheme where we provide monetary bonuses and praises for outstanding work; subsidised taxi journey for shifts starting or finishing between 00:00 and 05:00am to worldwide hotel room rates and F&B discounts for all colleagues, their friends and family too!

We are open 7 days a week 365 days a year and need people to work a range of shifts and days - this means we can offer great flexibility if required.

Please click ‘apply’ now!

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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